On Saturday night Michel Barnier, the French prime minister, unveiled his new centre-Right cabinet, awarding plum posts such as interior and finance ministers to mainstream conservatives and Macron allies, provoking anger from the opposition and threats to topple the government.

The team put together by the new prime minister combines Macron loyalists with a dozen elected representatives from the most conservative right. It's a far cry from the social-democratic roots of Emmanuel Macron's early supporters.

French President Emmanuel Macron named a new government led by Prime Minister Michel Barnier Saturday, marked by a shift to the right 11 weeks after an inconclusive parliamentary election. The first major task for Barnier,